Hi! Belated happy new year to you all! I'm working on a news script, and needed a way to strip input from HTML-tags, so I conjured up this little function: detag: func [ "Removes HTML-tags from a string, file or url, leaves special characters intact, except ." source [string!] "String, file or url to detag." 'target [word!] "Copies the result to this target." /custom block [block!] "Define a block of special characters to be replaced, i.e. [^"Á^" ^"Â^"]." /local tag string list a b ][ list: ["<br>" " " "</p>" "^/" " " " "] if custom [append list block] string: copy source set to-word get 'target string for i 1 (length? list) 2 [ a: i b: i + 1 replace/all get target list/:a list/:b ] while [ parse get target [to "<" thru ">" to end] ][ parse get target [to "<" copy tag thru ">" (remove/part find get target tag length? tag) to end] ] get target ] Feel free to optimise all this, I bloated it a little bit, because of <br>, </p> and - so I've added a /custom refinement. Use it to strip any special characters. I wanted to add a refinement that did that automatically, but I was too lazy to figure out a really efficient way to handle the special characters (like: & - any letter - acute/circ/etc. - ;) Have fun, keep coding! Regards, Rachid